PF Secretary General Davies Mwila has thanked the Communist Party of China (CPC) for providing training opportunities to his party youths in areas such as agriculture and requested that such programmes be expanded to benefit more youths and women in his party. Sunday Chanda, the PF Director for Media said in a statement that the...

Weaknesses in the management of Zambia’s public finances and investment pose significant risks to the 2017 budget objectives, says the International Monitory Fund (IMF). The IMF team led by Tsidi Tsikata was in the county from 31st May to 10th June to continue discussions over government’s request for an IMF-supported program. Tsikata made several observations...

Chairperson of the German parliamentary committee for Southern African Development Community (SADC), Martin Rabanus says Europe will continue to speak out when opposition leaders in the region are “incarcerated for obvious political reasons”. Rabanus was speaking when he met a group of journalists from Southern Africa at the German parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin German. The...

Economist Professor Oliver Saasa says the continuous dragging of UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s treason case might delay negotiations for the country’s IMF bailout package. Magistrate David Simusamba has referred the treason case involving Hichilema to the High Court for judicial review, saying if the judicial review did not take shape in 15 days, he would...

The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) says Zambia remains committed to ensuring that viable solutions are found to addressing mercury use and emissions in key economic activities. ZEMA Corporate Affairs Manager Ireen Lungu Chipili said in a statement that Zambia, after​ signing the Convention on Mercury in 2013 and ratifying it in 2016 has implemented...

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has announced that inflation has dropped from 6.7 per cent in April to 6.5 per cent in May. And the CSO says the trade balance figures which his office announced for the months of January and February this year were wrong. Speaking at a media briefing today, CSO Director of...

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) public relations manager Timothy Moono says the Commission has not been tasked by anyone to fix former Information and Broadcasting minister Chishimba Kambwili Moono told News Digger! that ACC was purely interested in establishing how the former minister acquired his wealth and not to settle any political scores on anyone's behalf. “The...

Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet Christopher Mvunga says Zambia is committed to enhancing its path to further diversify the economy to agriculture. Mvunga was speaking on arrival in Ahmedabad, India, for this year's Africa Development Bank-AfDB annual meeting. In a statement issued by first secretary for press and tourism at the Zambian Embassy in India,...

The Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) has arrested a Zambia Army officer named Sevelino Zulu and 38 other suspects in Livingstone for various wildlife offences. Ministry of Tourism and Arts Public Relations Officer Sakabilo Kalembwe said Zulu, 40, a Warrant Officer Class II was found in illegal possession of 12 pieces of ivory...

Action Aid Zambia acting country director Kajila Shako says young people’s needs cannot be addressed if national budgets lack critical components that address unemployment and HIV infection among other issues. And Minister of Sport Moses Mawere says young people must get engaged in the political process and in issues affecting them for the country to...